<p>TheDad sends his greetings, salutations, and bad puns to the CC community. 
He’ll be back online after a family reunion in the NC area. </p>
<p>TheDaughter & TheMom would send greetings, too, but are engaged in Olympic-caliber synchronized eye rolls. Marching band directors, generals, and the CIA have all expressed envy at the tandem act. :)</p>
<p>Ariesathena, since you’re all synchronized and everything, may I ask you to pass along a message, between eye rolls? Could you please tell him the head coach offered “some” money (yay!!!), and, D loves “What’s Bread in the Bone” :)</p>
<p>“TheDaughter & TheMom would send greetings, too, but are engaged in Olympic-caliber synchronized eye rolls.”</p>
<p>I love it! Thanks for the laugh.</p>
<p>P.S., tell Thedad to hurry back (safely). CC isn’t the same without him.</p>
<p>A great trip so far but this is only my second time on-line in over a week, most of which was devoted to dealing with over 700 e-mail messages.</p>
<p>This is a multi-purpose trip but when I get home I’ll be able to post what I hope are some useful notes on D.C.-area hotel experiences </p>
<p>And for a CC-related on-topic footnote, the Smith alumni connections have been fabulous.</p>
<p>Don’t know when I’ll be on-line again…another week to go.</p>
<p>It was absolutely fabulous to see AriesAthena in the flesh once more and needle her in person. And I see that she neglected to mention how hour waitress noted how much I looked like Johnny Depp.</p>
<p>The waitress had remarkable eyesight …</p>
<p><a href=“http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:a4-M1xc18sYBqM:www.evilscience.net/institutions/halloffame[/url]”>http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:a4-M1xc18sYBqM:www.evilscience.net/institutions/halloffame</a></p>
<p>Yeah, yeah, that’s a low blow. We’re all envious of TheDad’s devastating good looks and renewed pictorial fame. Aaaarr!</p>
<p>LOL! </p>
<p>I’m still convinced that TheDad’s portrait is hanging up in the National Portrait Gallery between those of Ulysses S. Grant and James Garfield. 
As I had come straight from the second Pirates,, I can say, with absolute certainty, that there is no resemblance between TheDad & Johnny Depp. While the waitress apparently saw the resemblance, we did not.</p>
<p>Wonderful to see TheDad, TheMom, & TheDaughter (aka ma petite soeur) again. TheDad was in fine form, with more groaner puns in a few hours than I had heard all year.</p>
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He looks like Rutherford B. Hayes? Who would have guessed…?</p>
<p>I do <em>not</em> look like Rutherford B. Hayes. TheMom and I both checked at the National Portrait Gallery, just to be sure. And I went back a second time, just to verify. Clearly Aries’ vision is asthmatic or something.</p>
<p>Here is a link to the more accurate Depp-like likeness of me: <a href=“Contact Johnny Depp 🕶️ (2024) Email, Address, Agent, Manager, Publicist”>Contact Johnny Depp 🕶️ (2024) Email, Address, Agent, Manager, Publicist;
<p>(Too bad the new movie is such a bummer…I shall froth about that OT when time permits.)</p>
<p>Of course, partially it’s that I look like Johnny Depp, partly that I <em>move</em> like he does in the Pirates movies.</p>
<p>Aries, I hope you can connect again with ta petite soeur before your paths diverge.</p>
<p>This is what your adoptive daughter thinks you look like, pirate-boy. Get over it. A staunch Republican, too. How the hell do you drink latte with a beard like that?</p>
<p><a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rutherford_B_Hayes[/url]”>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rutherford_B_Hayes</a></p>
<p>TheDad–okay, I clicked on the link. Now, you must realize that Johnny Depp is about the only man out there that both my D and I think is hot… but that is one amazing picture. Even my husband doesn’t look like that when the lights are off (even though he’s get better legs than Lance Armstrong’s). Seriously, that’s just not fair.</p>
<p>I have to admit that the exchanges between TheDad and Aries provide some of the best lines on CC. </p>
<p>If the question of Depp or no Depp cannot be answered, could we turn our sights to father of Depp:</p>
<p><a href=“http://news.softpedia.com/news/Keith-Richards-Might-Do-Pirates-After-All-9534.shtml[/url]”>http://news.softpedia.com/news/Keith-Richards-Might-Do-Pirates-After-All-9534.shtml</a></p>
<p>Now, that is some TheDad. :)</p>
<p>Oh gawd xiggi, I like the Rutherford image better.</p>
<p>Aries isn’t quite my adoptive daughter…my advice to her hasn’t been quite that full of what would otherwise be liberties…though she <em>is</em> the D’s sister separated-before-birth…one of those quantum-mechanical things.</p>
<p>Driver, easy: I don’t have a beard like that and I don’t drink lattes. Q.E.D.</p>
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Well maybe it was Rutherford’s bedhead that made Aries think of you. Whatever, the mental image is firmly planted.</p>
<p>LOL!!! </p>
<p>TheDad’s beard is a bit more… tame. </p>
<p>To clarify: TheDaughter and I are sisters, separated long before birth and by several time zones. Nevertheless, the obscure connection is more logical than originally thought: TheMom and I share a birthday. </p>
<p>The only semblances between TheDad and Johnny Depp are the utter lack of morals, the consumption of alcohol (although TheDad does prefer a finer varietal), and a remarkable ability to cause angst and anger in the females surrounding him. </p>
<p>I don’t think I have TheDaughter’s cell number… but I will try to connect with her before I leave the District. :)</p>